Cannell, R.J.S., Bill, J., Cheetham, P. and Welham, K., 2020. Geochemical analysis of the truncated Viking Age trading settlement of Heimdalsjordet, Norway. Geoarchaeology, 35 (5), 748-771.
Full text available as:
|
PDF (OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE)
gea.21795.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. 5MB | |
PDF
Geoarchaeology resubmission version_post_review_pre_final_rproof.pdf - Accepted Version Restricted to Repository staff only Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives. 447kB | ||
Copyright to original material in this document is with the original owner(s). Access to this content through BURO is granted on condition that you use it only for research, scholarly or other non-commercial purposes. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact BU via BURO@bournemouth.ac.uk. Any third party copyright material in this document remains the property of its respective owner(s). BU grants no licence for further use of that third party material. |
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21795
Abstract
Single and multi-element archaeological geochemistry has been applied to research and rescue projects for many decades to enhance our understanding of the past use of space. Often applied on one contextual plane, this ignores the complex palimpsest resulting from past occupation and soil processes. Furthermore, many important sites are now heavily truncated by ploughing, leaving little more than negative features below the homogenised topsoil. These challenges require new approaches to archaeological geochemistry in order to gather information before these sites are lost to modern land use. The research presented here applied coring as a sampling method on a truncated site, the sample locations guided by high-resolution ground penetrating radar (GPR) data and excavation, before using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) directly on the core samples to understand the phase by phase composition of the deposits and thus past human occupation. The results suggest that even in truncated and secondary contexts, such as the case study of the Viking Age trade settlement of Heimdalsjordet, Norway, archaeological geochemistry can give insight into the chronological and spatial development of the site, and is especially relevant for detecting non-ferrous metal-working activity.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
ISSN: | 0883-6353 |
Additional Information: | Funding information: Arts and Humanities Research Council; Bournemouth University |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | geochemistry, pXRF, coring, geophysics, Viking Age |
Group: | Faculty of Science & Technology |
ID Code: | 32143 |
Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
Deposited On: | 09 Apr 2019 08:44 |
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 14:15 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Repository Staff Only - |